Combined wire stretcher and fastener.



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COMBINED WIRE STRETGHER AND EASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED DBO.19,1906.

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PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

E. P. MOORE. .OOMBINED WIRE STRETOHER AND FASTENBR.

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exact description of the EUGENE P.

Moon-n, or STTtEATOR, ILLINOIS.

QOlWBlNED WIRE STRETCHER AND FASTENEFL Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed December 19, 1906. Serial No. 348,635.

jib/til IIZM/Ilb it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE P. Moons, a citizen of the United States, residing at Streator, in the county of Lasalle and State of Illinois, useful llllplOVGIllGlltSiIl a Combined Wire Stretcher and Fastener; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and invention, suchas will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful im rovenients in combined wire stretchers an fasteners, and more particularly that class adapted to be used in constructing wire fences; and my object is to provide a device of this class whereby the strands of fencewire may be quickly and easily stretched and I secured to the post.

A further object is to provide a device of this class whereby the severed. ends of the fence-wires may be secured together to form a splice.

Other objects and advantages will be'hereinafter referred to, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my Improved device complete, showing the same as applied to use. Fig. 2 is a to plan view the'reof,'showing portions of the device broken away. 4, and 5 are perspective views showmg the manner of securing the wires to the fence-post. Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the manner of securing the broken ends of thewires together. Fig.7 is a detail view, on an enlarged scale, showing the manner of splicing theends of a broken wire. Fig. 8 is a detail view, on an enlarged scale, showing the manner of securing the wires to the post as disclosed in Fig. 3 of the draw ings. Fig. 9 is a detail view, on an enlarged scale, showing the manner of attaching the wires to the end post; and Figs 10 and '11 are detail views, on an enlarged scale, showing the manner of securing the wires to the post as disclosed in Figs. 4 and 5, respectively.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar reference-numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates the frame of my improved device, which consists'of'a tubular head 2, which is provided at one end with rearwardly-extendhave invented certain new and I to form a circumferential shoulder 4.

Disposed over the reduced end of the head 2 and resting against the shoulder iis ayoke 5, the outer curved ends of which are provided with curved faces 6, which are adapted to rest against the post 7 when the device is in use.

Disposed through the free ends of the arms 3 and finding bearings therein is a shaft 8, upon which is disposed a spool 9, having one or more Winding-spaces thereon, upon which are wound securing-wires 10. The shaft 8 is 'of sufiicient length to extend beyond each of the arms 3 and has secured to one end thereof a crank 1 1, while the. opposite end is provided with a ratchet-'wheel 12, with which is adapt ed to cooperate a latch 13, which is pivotally secured to one of the arms 3, so that when the latch is in engagement with the ratchetwheel the shaft 8 will be held against rotation in one direction. The s 0019 is fixed tothe shaft 8, so that when said shaft is rotated the securing-wires 10 will be wound upon the spool, so that said securing-Wires will be drawn taut when the shaft is rotated in one direction.

In applying the device to use the free ends of the wires 10 are disposed through a bore 14 in the head 2 and thenaround a'strandof the fence-wire 1 5, said wires passing on 0 P site sides of the post. The free ends 0 the ing arms 3 and is reduced at its forward end- Wires are then brought back to the end of the head 2 and are disposed through openings 16 in a collar 17, said collar being disposed-over the reduced end of the head 2 and in fiont of the yoke 5, said wires being secured in any preferred manner therein, as by bending the protrudin endsof the wires arallel with the outer face of the collar. Ater the Wires are thus disposed the spool 9 is rotated through the medium of the crank 11 until the wire 15 is partially drawn around the 'post and the wires 10 drawn taut, after w hich'the head 2 is rotated in the yoke 5 by manually rotatingthe frame 1, thereby twisting the strands of the wires 10 between the head-2 and the post together, after which the wires 10 are severed at a oint between the head 2 and the post, thus mly securing the fencewire to the post without employing the usual form of'staple. This manner of securing the fence-wires to the in Figs. 3 and 8. The col ar 17 is heidr'i'gid with the head 2 andcaused to rotate thereost is best shown -which will result in twisting the end of the with. by means of a pin 18, which extends laterally through the center of the head and collar and also serves to separate the extended] ends of the wires it), and the open ings 1c in the collar 17 are preferably dis posed through the. collar, at diametrically opposite sides thereof, so thatthe ends of the wires it) secured in the openings and the portions of the wires extended through. the 1 bore are in the same horizontal plane, in which position they may be readily twisted together by rotating the head and collar.

instead of directing the free ends of the wires 10 around the fence-wire and through the openings 16 in the collar said free ends may be twisted around the wire 15 and'then drawn taut -by rotating the shaft. 8, after which the two wires it) are secured together by rotating the head 2, this manner of scouring the wires together being shown in Figs. 1 5 and i1 l In some instances .l employ but a single wire 10, in which. case the free end of the wire is'directed under the fence-wire l5, thence around the post and over the wire 15 on the opposite side of the post, and thence through one'of the openings 16, after which the head 2 is rotated and the two ends of the wire ll) twisted-together, this form of tie being best shown in liigs. +1 and it) of the drawings.

In making a splice, as when a strand of the fence-wire becomes broken, the free ends of the wires are secured to the severed portions of the wire 15, after which the shaft 8 is rotated until the fence-wire is drawn taut. Then by rotating the head 2 the protruding portions of the wires it) are twisted and seoured together, s best shown in Figsb and 7 of the drawings.

Before the fence-wires are secured in position around the post they are stretched in the line of fence and have their opposite ends secured to the end post, and to accomplish this result after the wires have been distributed along the line of fence one end thereof is secured to one of the end posts in i any preferred manner, while one end of the wires 10 is secured at a distance from the opposite end. of the wire 15 and dream taut through the medium of the shaft 8, and aft er the end of the wirc-l5has passed the end post the free end thereof is inserted into one of the openings -16 and the head 2 rotated,

Wire 15 and the wire 10 together, thereby firmly securing the wire 15 to the end post and at the same time partially stretching the scenes wires together anl also for securing the I fence-wires to the. end posts.

Wha t .l claim is- I 'lheherein-dost. ibed means for securing fence-wires to a post, comprising a frame 1 having a head at one end and arms at the opposite end, a spool rotatably mounted between said arms, 1neans to rotate said spool, said spool being adapted to receive wires which extend. through said head and engage the fence-wire, and means to hold said wires whilev the same are being twisted together.

2. The lierein-deseribed means for securing fence-wires to a post, comprising a frame having a head at one end thereof and arms at the opposite end't'hereof, a shaft rotatably mounted in said arms, a spool fixedly secured on said shaft and between said arms, means to rotate said shaft, whereby wires secured thereto will be wound thereon, said wires eX- tending through. a bore in said head and engaging the fence-wire, and a collar on said head having openings therein to receive the free ends of said wires whereby when the head is rotated the wires will be twisted together.

3. The hereiii-deseribed. means for securing fence-wires, comprising a frame, a head on l said frame having a bore therein, arms extended from said head, a'spool'rotatably mounted between said arms, means to prevent rotation of the spool in one direction, said spool adapted to receive wires which extend through said bore and into engagement with the fence-wires a yoke on said head, a collar fixmllysecured to said head and lfaving openings therein to receive the free ends of said wires whereby said wires will be directed together when said head is rotated.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this s 'ieciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EUGENE P. MOORE.

Witnesses:

'JouN HAMMOND,

M. J. WIIALEN. 

